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Turnus
Mythical character King of the Rutuli / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Turnus (Ancient Greek: Τυρρηνός, romanized: Tyrrhênós) was the legendary King of the Rutuli in Roman history, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid.
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According to the Aeneid, Turnus is the son of Daunus and the nymph Venilia and is brother of the nymph Juturna.[1]